Concertos. Pepe Evangelista Cuarteto

Teima

Project Teima (Audia Records, 2007) is a turning point in guitarist Pepe Evangelista’s experience as a jazz composer. He himself admits that, without losing the melodic traditional sound of jazz, this time he moves away from its classical strict rules and approaches the principles of free jazz. Pepe Evangelista is an essential personality in order to understand the booming success of jazz in Galicia and more specifically in A Coruña, a middle-sized, middle-class capital town north of Galicia. Evangelista is now the head of the Department of Jazz at A Coruña Conservatory of Music.

Teima includes the participation of three of the most distinguished and dynamic figures of local jazz, who have quite a few elements in common. Roberto Somoza, has performed jazz since he was very young, first in A Coruña, where he is now giving classes of saxophone in the High Level Course in Jazz offered by the Conservatory. He has collaborated with many different artists and has published two albums as a band leader Regra de Tres (Xingra, 2004) and Tempos de Cambio (Xingra, 2006). Kin García has attended the Conservatories of Music of Santiago (the capital city of Galicia) and A Coruña. Early in his life he began his collaborations with Alberto Conde and Xesús Pimentel, and later on with Nani García and Fernando Llorca. He has a close relation with folk music and gives lessons of electric bass at the Conservatory of A Coruña. Drummer Miguel Cabana has visited this festival in the past with some of his colleague musicians, and is a reputed drummer who collaborates with artists like Alberto Conde and Carmen Rey.

• Pepe Evangelista: Guitar
• Kin García: Double bass
• Miguel Cabana: Drums
• Roberto Somoza: Saxophone

More information available on

• www.pepevangelista.es/